The discovery of a weapon Friday morning at the Wayne County Jail has caused a lockdown.

"Due to our jail protocol, a weapon was recovered in an area of Division I this morning," said Paula Bridges, press director for the Office of the Wayne County Sheriff. "It is a matter the sheriff takes extremely seriously.

"An investigation is under way to determine how it got there. Beyond that, I have no further comment."

If you can't even keep firearms out of the hands of inmates in jail, then so much for any chance of effective gun control in the real world.